You Ask, I Answer: Optimizing Content for AI? Part 4 of 4

Welcome to part four of how to AI SEO optimize. God. Um a piece of content. In part one, we looked at the mise on plus of all the things that you need to have available to you, like your writing style, your ideal customer profile, etc. In part two, we did an analysis of the article that we're going to optimize to figure out what's wrong with it.

In part three, we did some deep research to get background information and drafted the first part of the article. Um drafted the raw uh pieces of it. In this part, we're now going to deploy the article and craft additional pieces that make it AI friendly. So let's uh pick up where we left off. We have the articles, seven pieces now uh of this article.

So I'm gonna go ahead and start gluing this all together uh in markdown format, which is the the format that my WordPress blog uses because I like it, and I'm extracting it just from Google's AI Studio. Again, I'm using AI Studio because I have access to it, um, but you are welcome to use the generative AI tool of your choice, and I would actually recommend for writing um that uh anthropic clawed uh sonnet 4.5 seems to have a really good uh writing style. A lot of people seem to like it. Uh so let's go ahead and uh I would say if you're gonna use a piece, that might be the piece to do the tool to use. Um, but I use Gemini.

It's fine. They're all here's here's the thing. I uh this is an important part. All of today's state-of-the-art foundation models, chat GPTs, GPT-5, Anthropic Clawed, uh, Google Gemini, Deep Seek uh 3.2, you name it, Copilot and its models, they are all capable of operating at or above human PhD levels, properly prompted, which means that if something's gone wrong with our use of generative AI, it is not the model's problem, it is our problem. We did not prompt it smartly enough.

We did not prompt it well enough. Uh, we didn't do a good job with it. Um, so these the the issues that exist are not the technology's problems. All right, so let's take a look at the raw contents here. Uh we have the introduction, and we also have some stuff to get rid of.

Um, so there's the introduction, there's part one. Uh let's see. There's part two. Let's keep scrolling. There's part three on process.

So we have purpose, people, process, platform. Remember, this is we're following the five Ps. And performance. Those are the five parts of the article, and then we pop down here to the conclusion. And so we have ourselves a nice 3500-word article.

That itself is pretty good. Let's do this. The some things that we might want to add to this article to make it to give it some more uh meat and potatoes, uh, could be things like an abstract, something up front, or an outline or a table of contents. All those things would be good things to add to this article so that um it functions really really well for a tool that's scanning it. And this doesn't necessarily mean AI, this can also just be uh search engines, uh crawlers, etc.

Because let's face it, this is 3500 words. This is this is a uh a beefy, beefy article. Um, so let's do this. Um, let's have it, let's take our article as is. Here's the final text of the article.

Create a markdown table of contents. So we'll give it a moment here to create a table of contents. We'll copy that. We'll take this back into our article here. Create a two-centence abstract of the entire article, and we'll put that up front.

We redefine synergy from Amir Buzzword. Okay, good. That looks good there. Table of contents introduction. And now one of the things that Genitive AI tends to really like in its data sets is questions and answers.

But first, let me go make through, make sure you subscribe to my newsletter. Let's make sure that this is linked properly. Alright. And now let's do a key takeaway section. Create a bullet list set of key takeaways from this article in markdown format using the writing style of Christopher Penn.

Okay, let's copy that. Bring it in, and we'll call this timely takeaways. Good. So we've now got this article up to 4100 words. Let's go and push it back in.

And I'm gonna leave the date where it is, but I'm going to uh let's this snippet here. You know what? I don't hate that snippet. That's not bad. Let's edit the snippet.

Alright. Now let's go into here. We need a 75 character title for this article and a 160 character description of this article for the featured snippet preview in Google. What would be the most appealing title and featured snippet that our ideal custom profile would just absolutely feel like they had to click on it? Okay, we have the Synergy System and our featured snippet.

Lovely. All right, let's hit update. Now you'll notice something here in this whole process. We have gone through and really rebuilt this post not to be optimized for a search engine, not to be optimized for an AI tool. It is optimized for somebody who really wants to read this article about the 5P framework and about Synergy.

Why? Why did I do it this way? Why am I not using one of the big SEO tools that are available on the market? Why did I not do a bunch of keyword research and things? For a couple reasons.

One, Google Search Console already tells me what I'm Amin, I'm not getting traffic for or impressions for. And two, and this part's really important. In a world where AI is intermediating everything, if a human being gets to your content, it's because they didn't get something from AI. If a human being gets to your content. If they take the time to click through, it's because AI did not satisfy their needs.

And so we want to take our content, our pillar content that is the has been the heart and soul of our content marketing. And we want to instead of turning into slop, we want to double down on our unique point of view. The previous article was kind of slop, right? It was it was okay, it wasn't great. This article is is very much infused with a specific point of view, with a specific framework, with something that is uniquely me, that is my opinion, and it's it's visible in the article that this is now written by somebody who has uh uh a perspective on synergy that is not generic.

I'll repeat that again. In an era when AI can give everyone the easy answer, the only way that people will get to you is if you have the not easy answer. If you have something that is not the usual stuff, if you have a point of view, if you have something that that differentiates you, and you saw how we used AI to modify this content by bringing in external research, by citing the research in the article, by copying the writing style exactly, by proofreading it, human in the loop, right, to read through it, and by having the human guide the creation. That's why this is not automated. That's why this is not an AI agent that's just gonna you know mass automate stuff, because if a machine can do it, a machine can also process all the other parts of it, and and there's there's nothing differentiating.

Now, for lower performance content, where you're already not getting any traffic for it anyway, sure, you could use AI to optimize this, but you might as well you might just as well be better off just pruning it and just getting rid of it. If it's just not performing, especially if it is if it is not dead on topically related to you, just get rid of it. Uh, you know, turn it, prune it away, make it into something else. But this is the process that I would go through for any high value article where I see in my metrics. I'm getting a lot of impressions.

I'm not getting a lot of clicks. Um, and it's old and it needs a refresh. So give this a process a try. See how it goes for you, and let me know how it worked. That's going to do it for this episode.

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